Functionality

Meat protein solutions to help improve yields and give your products better texture, improved sliceability, and reduced purge - all while providing a clean-label solution that consumers can read and understand.

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Today, you will find a lot of companies that are promoting themselves as innovative. It seems that innovation has almost become the magic word. But often you'll find that highly acclaimed innovations are only minor product developments that have no particular value.

That's why we have the concept of Real Innovation. To us real innovation is twofold. Real in the sense that we use natural ingredients in our protein solutions. And real in the sense that our solutions must fit closely to what your needs are. In other words: We are able to provide real value for you in your production process or in your products when they hit the shelves.

That's because we have invested heavily in research facilities with industry experts - scientists, food technologists etc. Next to our headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa we have the newest facility - a 20,600 sq. ft. research and innovation centre called the LAB. It houses culinary test kitchens, research laboratories, training rooms, offices and a pilot plant facility where controlled pre-production trials can be done. In addition to the LAB, Essentia has technical centres in Gråsten, Denmark and Granollers, Spain. These centres serve both regional and global customers with innovative research and application services. Essentia’s application experts also regularly participate in on-site, full scale trials at customers’ plants.

Targeting on real value

How can I use beef protein in my nutrition and avoid the taste of beef? How can I reduce purge in my injected ham? How can I implement this new recipe for a salami in my production?

These could be typical questions from our customers - questions that are easy to answer - in theory.

But, as you might have guessed, theory is often overruled by practice.

Consequently, our application services are 100% targeted at your product and production process and how our products perform in that respect. In other words - a reality check.

Application Center Trials

Testing new ingredients or recipes on large scale production setups can be both costly and time consuming.

Using one of Essentia's Application Centres for test jobs gives you the advantage of conducting smaller scale test runs in a small but professional environment - and getting reliable results.

Our application experts will work alone - or with you on the side - to optimize your production process, so it is easy to implement in your production.

Customer seminar

Often this type of seminar is carried out with new customers.

Each customer seminar is tailor-made, but typically it is used for training purposes of customer innovation or production personnel.

The main focus is how to use Essentia protein solutions with the best possible effect in the relevant applications.

On-site testing

On-site testing is a possibility if sometimes our customers need to have our expertise available at the production site - for instance if there are problems with the different ingredients and how they react.

In these cases our application experts have valuable insights from many other production setups and are able to contribute with a solution.